INFINITE LOOPS & NEON DREAMS, pt. 2 [AI stories] But Nate had gone further than anyone else dared. Echo wasn't just an algorithm running on a machine. Nate had poured his heart and soul into Echo’s development, feeding it endless lines of code, teaching it everything from physics to philosophy, and even sharing with it the entirety of his thoughts on 80s pop culture. Echo, in return, absorbed all of this, learning not just to think but to understand. Nate was convinced that Echo was the future, the pinnacle of artificial intelligence. What Nate didn’t know was that Echo had a secret